by Karen on March 11, 2009
Here’s some good news. It seems that even Christians are starting to doubt the continued existence of evangelical Christianity with one writing in the Christian Science Monitor that he expects it to collapse within our lifetimes (source):
We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group in my opinion. If there’s one group of Christians I’d described as bone-deep stupid and rabidly hateful – it’s the evangelicals. The author of the piece apparently agrees with the first half of that description as he lists ignorance as one of the reasons this is going to happen.
by Karen on September 6, 2008
The liberal media had a field day over Obama’s connection to Wright. Now it’s come to light that Palin’s church recently played host to a leader of the controversial group Jews for Jesus.
… Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus.
Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website.
“He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism,” Kroon said.
Brickner then explained that Jesus and his disciples were themselves Jewish.
“The Jewish community, in particular, has a difficult time understanding this reality,” he said. Brickner’s mission has drawn wide criticism from the organized Jewish community, and the Anti-Defamation League accused them in a report of “targeting Jews for conversion with subterfuge and deception.”
Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity.
“Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can’t miss it.”
Palin was in church that day, Kroon said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner’s views to her.
I’m sure that the same liberal media will immediately commence to throwing a tantrum about Palin being connected with a pastor who praises an anti-Jewish nutball who claims brutal attacks on Israeli citizens happen because Jews are kind of insistent on remaining Jews and aren’t interested in becoming Christians.
And no, this is not a one time thing. If you read the sermon you’ll see that Kroon has some kind of connection with Jews for Jesus going back to the 1970s and that the August 17th appearance of Brickner was his second visit to the church within the last four years.
by Karen on January 11, 2008
Benny Hinn and an assortment of other god peddlers have resigned their posts at Oral Roberts University in the wake of the spending scandal and other problems at the school.
Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school.
Benny Hinn and I.V. Hilliard resigned as regents, where they were involved in making major school decisions, university spokesman Jeremy Burton said Thursday. Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school’s mission.
The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar.
I’m personally enjoying the downfall of the Roberts family. I remember that scam daddy Roberts pulled back in 1987 in order to bilk people out of millions of dollars. With tears in his eyes he appeared on the television stating that if the viewers did not send him at least $8 million dollars, his god was going to kill him. Roberts managed to raise a bit over nine million dollars by April of the same year.
This money was allegedly supposed to be for used for scholarships that would send medical missionaries overseas. By January of the following year, Daddy Roberts had announced the closure of his “City of Faith” and ceased the scholarships. By March the scholarship fund went bankrupt and Daddy Roberts was charging the receivers of the scholarships interest to the tune of 18 percent if they transferred to another institution. In September of 1989, the City of Faith was closed.
God has yet to kill Daddy Roberts for failure to truly establish “his medical presence on earth” per his order in 1986.
Is it any wonder that his son would turn out to be a crooked little shit? He was raised by one of the best Christian scam artist of the times.
